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Author Blackhawk, Ned.

Title Violence over the land : Indians and empires in the early American West / Ned Blackhawk.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  979.00497 B564v 2008    ---  Available
Edition 1st Harvard University Press paperback ed.
Description 372 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-357) and index.
Contents Introduction : The indigenous body in pain -- 1. Spanish-Ute relations to 1750 -- 2. The making of the new Mexican-Ute borderlands -- 3. The enduring Spanish-Ute alliance -- 4. Crisis in the new Mexican-Ute borderlands -- 5. Great basin Indians in the era of Lewis and Clark -- 6. Colorado Utes and the traumatic storms of expansion -- 7. Utah's Indians and the crisis of Mormon settlement -- Epilogue : Born on the Fourth of July, or narrating Nevadan Indian histories -- Chronology -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Subject Indians of North America -- Great Basin -- History.
Indians of North America -- Wars -- Great Basin.
Great Basin -- History.
ISBN 0674027205 (pbk.)
9780674027206 (pbk.)

 
    
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